Volunteers from a variety of groups help to sweep sand from the streets of Pelican Island during a Martin Luther King Jr. Day cleanup organized by Joan DeLucia of Sandy Weekday Warriors. / PETER ACKERMAN/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

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The accent — and attitude — is pure Brooklyn.

Joan DeLucia, now of Toms River, isn’t the type to back down from a fight.

Seeing the mess that superstorm Sandy left in her community so annoyed her (although “annoyed” is not how she phrases it) that she’s spent the past two months marshaling large groups of volunteers to muck out scores of flooded homes in Ortley Beach and other hard-hit sections of the township.

This past Monday, the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday, DeLucia again had about 160 people out there working, this time on Pelican Island. She says she targeted that area, just west of the Thomas A. Mathis Bridge, because seeing all the debris strewn in the marsh there really, you know, irked her.

Another thing that ... sets her off is seeing people with cameras, merrily snapping photos of the destruction.

“I go up to them and say, ‘Are you here to volunteer?’ And when they say, ‘No, I’m not here to volunteer,’ ” I say, “Oh? What would you be doing here then?’”